'woman' - a change in the definition of the word

Maybe you can't genetically change your gender. But you can, or should, be allowed to live a normal, happy, life in the gender you are sure you should have been assigned to.

It's pandering to the minority again. What will happen to 'girl', 'lady', 'lass'...will they be redundant too?

This whole thing about gender is becoming ridiculous. Plus, whatever anyone says, you can't change your gender. You might cut off the superfluous bits and dress in clothes associated with the opposite sex, but genetically, you stay the gender you were born with.

Well, if someone has (quote from article) "taken the decision to undergo a process for the purpose of becoming female”, then that person will have to be included as female. You can't have it all ways. Either you accept some people are living the wrong gender, or you don't.

I think what the article mainly illustrates is how easily the Scottish Government can get itself tied up in knots. And they want independence!

I'm talking about umpteen genders, not rights.
Human 'rights' are a recent addition to the plethora of rules, restrictions and gags mainly imposed by the pc brigade.
I don't agree with any of it.
That is soley my choice and I certainly don't criticise anyone else's choice.
Each to their own.

Maw I love that song too.
I sometimes wonder where the word 'woman' comes from.
A man with a womb?

Human rights are tosh, GG54?

I can't be r- sd with all that nonsense.
Utter tosh.

*BradfordLass72" We say feminist and feminism because women have struggled and continue to struggle to get a fair share of the cake, among other things. There is no point talking about human rights when men have been able to take seven-eighths of the cake and leave the women with the leftover slice. The women have already been sidelined.

However, human rights also matter – in politics, in war zones, in education and so on. Because human rights matter for all, doesn't mean that women's rights are unimportant.

Why do we say, 'feminist' and 'feminism' ?

We don't say, 'masculinist' or 'masculinism' - we take male rights for granted.

We should be striving for human rights, which would preclude the torturous proving or disproving of gender.

I have just re-read 'The Handmaid's Tale' after many years (didn't see the TV series) and am alarmed to think that the obliteration of women's freedom was given great impetus in that book by computer manipulation of financial affairs. I just wonder if it would be easy enough to do something similar now that we are all so reliant on computers...

I love that song Maw .

I wonder how long it will take before the word woman is extinct ☹️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTYIT8XhrCU

Oh dear do. superannuated civil servants and politicians really have nothing better to do?
Give me this definition any day

www.scotsman.com/news/politics/concerns-raised-over-scottish-government-s-definition-of-the-word-woman-1-4981283?fbclid=IwAR02vtyGSWay_S3cC3E7FiPaZ4t6iJZLgmTrhrq_LamWvmjoUxUJQUgk8xw